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March 12, 2010 at 7:22pm
Keep smiling, Michelle. I'm sure Marisa will get us out of this damned mess.
I must say, the Labour Party is looking really progressive and moderate right now. That’s what happens when you’re all-inclusive: you end up with the political equivalent of a cheap package holiday, full of tarts, thugs, slags and wags.
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And she’s back :)
While it had the time to issue this denial, the MLP did not find the time to deny the close links between Joe Muscat and Sandro Chetcuti…
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100312/local/pl-denies-sandro-chetcuti-links-to-business-forum
PL says that Sandro Chetcuti doesn’t have links with the PL business forum:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100312/local/pl-denies-sandro-chetcuti-links-to-business-forum
BUT we all know that he had links with the PL.
This is by far one of your best blog-posts. The use of imagery and a few words is mesmerising.
Astrid must be pleased.
Daphne, you couldn’t summarise it better. That is exactly what this movement without limits means. Everyone is invited. Violent opportunists like that.
Prosit tar-record.
PS. What is Lil Din wearing? Looks like oven foil, you know, the sort used for chicken wrap.
God, look at those long sleeves. Michelle, here’s some free advice for your hubby.
Jackets should be worn with shirt-sleeves showing by at least 1 .5cm but not more than 2.5cm. Otherwise men tend to look like chimpanzees, with long arms and short bodies. And if you are on the short side, it is definitely a no no.
As to your silver dress, well, mmm enough said.
One word. Bacofoil.
Now come on … Michelle is pretty …. and I’m not being sarcastic!
Her dress is goddam ugly
Tkunux redikoli , helwa u tixirqilha…..nghiduha… ghadha zghira , u min ikun zghir anke xkora tixraqlu. Forsi xi hziem tad-deheb kien jixraq ma’ qaddha.
Ma’ kelliex tohrog bil-poodle imqaxxar maghha , dak kollox.
Niccajtaw ta.
Yes, Marisa has a PR nightmare. Part of the “moderates and progressives” strategy seems intended to dismantle the more robust empirical distinction between “conservative” and “liberal.” Typically, right-wing tends to be more “conservative,” and left-wing more “liberal.” However, PL politics have been consistently conservative, preservative of its antiquarian status quo; while PN politics have been more democratically and economically progressive, more consistent with left-of-center, or even modern centrist politics, hence PN politics have actually been very progressive in its development of jobs and a future for modern Malta.
It is clear, therefore, why “Moderates and Progressives” have been part of the rhetorical sloganeering of the PL; and also why the ugly present events, deeply rooted in the PL, are so disturbing for our hopes for a political balance in this country that actually would provide the opportunity for choice. It seems that that wish, to the extent that it is more commonly felt for those who hope for a constructive democracy within a two-party or multiple-party system–and not the tiresome zero-sum warfare that presently exists–is more remote from its potential reality, as long as the PL remains the conservative, increasingly undefined and amorphous institution it is, with its aspirations fossilized in politics of a past we’d all wish we could forget.
All this is a wake-up that none of the past and clearly present danger should be forgotten; if so, at our own peril and the country’s. Perhaps the present unfolding of events will help to bring about the real earthquakes needed in the PL for a progressive change in local politics. When the PL are strengthened as a truly responsible and progressive institution, then also the PN are made more accountable.
In government, the PN always must bear the moral and legal responsibility as decision makers. Unfortunately, in opposition, the PL have provided no reason for trusting them with the helm. The next three years is quite a good time frame for all of the distinctions to be drawn out sharply and clearly.
Joseph Muscat needs to prove himself in opposition: not as one who seems to rally the troops behind the PL logo (whatever its design), but as a national leader with a national vision and a national following. To the extent that the PN accomplish this, they are more likely to win an unprecedented fourth consecutive election, continuing the distortion of the present political imbalance.
I’d shave if I were him… why are we discussing their dress sense anyway? How does that help the political situation in Malta?
[Daphne – It’s called comic relief, biex innaqsu ftit it-tension, ma jmurx jerga jissawwat xi hadd fil-GRTU jew il-GWU.]
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That’s an anti-paparazzi suit. Work by reflecting the light emitted by camera flashes, blinding the photographer.
That’s a very witty remark! Spot on!
She’s definitely won the bet with that ‘dress’!
Let’s get out our kitchen foil and make dresses now!
Are you a cross dresser?
Nadur 2013? You’re on!
How does one dress like a magistrate?
Cover yourself in Araldite and roll in a pile of Euro notes.
Someone had suggested a short denim miniskirt and a black lion wig.
One assumes that a tight Tshirt should also be worn. A bras is optional.
I disagree, u tiekluniex please. I think they both look rather nice in that photo, well dressed, and a great looking couple if you never saw them before. Now look long and hard at the photo in that context, together with Daphne’s words to the right. And look again, and read again. And again.
A work of art.
@Alan Spot on. Every word means something, or someone!
Daphne hi, mhux ga ghidtlek ma turinix iktar dik il-libsa ghax il-hjata imgebbda tqabbadni l-bard.